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Pettit Chair in ECE and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper describes a study that introduces a new biomedical imaging tool that combines an ultrafast ultrasound imaging system and a multi-wavelength laser\u0026nbsp;referred to as multispectral ultrafast ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging to uniquely capture both acoustic and spectral features of a new class of dynamic phase-change nanoagents.\u0026nbsp;The developed approach could be potentially used for various clinical applications, including simultaneous detection and assessment of primary and metastatic cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research has been conducted in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, which is led by Emelianov and is located in the Molecular Science and Engineering Building on the Georgia Tech campus. In addition to the School of ECE, the lab is affiliated with the Wallace H. 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